Distributing mechanism of typographical composing and distributing machines



New. 27, 1934. c. A. ALBRECHT 1,982,040

DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM OF TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINES Filed July 26, 1955 lnvenimt C. a. amt

BY M,M+ W

Patented Nov. 27, 1934 DISTRIBUTING- MECHANISM- or T P GRAPHIOAL' 'COMPOSING z UTING MACHINES Christian Augustus Albrecht, Berlin, Germany, assignor to 'Mergen'thaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, N. 'Y., 'a company of NewfYork Application July '26, 1933, Serial '';No. 682,188 In Germany August .30, 193-2 3 Claims. (01. 199- 54) This invention relates to the distributing mechanism of typographical composing and. distributing machines, such as those known com mercially under the trade mark Linotype,

5 wherein circulating matrices are released from a magazine and assembled in line, a slug or typebar cast from the assembled line of matrices and the matrices thereafter returned'through a distributing mechanism to the magazine in which they are stored, such distribution being effected by the release of the matrices from a V-shaped distributor bar having 'combinations'o'i teeth rails engaged-by teeth formed in V-shaped notches on the matrices. The distributor bars heretofore proposed have been provided with toothed combinations all of equal length, or with individual toothed combinations of differing lengths to correspond with different thicknesses of matrices, and different widths of magazine channels. Recent developments have brought into use exceptionally wide matrices, with the result that all the channels of the magazines have not been utilized. For example, instead of the usual number of 90 different matrices in a complete font,

= 72 or 51 characters only have been employed, and

in such cases, no alterations have been made to the magazines, but a certain number of the grooves or channels therein were simply not used. vIt has also been proposed to use devices on the magazine entrances adapted to conduct the matrices from the distributor bar to the magazine and for guiding the matrices into their respective magazine channels.

In the case of these wide matrices, some difliculty has arisen owing to the fact that they dropped from the distributor bar too late, as the distributing teeth of each matrix have been flush with the surfaces of that side of the matrix which is the following side during distribution. Consequently, the release of the matrix was effected only when its leading side had travelled so far that when the matrix dropped off it would no longer be properly guided by the partitions of the magazine entrance, or by the magazine channels.

This disadvantage has been avoided by altering the location on the distributor bar of the distributing combinations for the wide matrices, this alteration having been rendered possible through the elimination of a certain number of magazine channels and the corresponding elimination of a number of toothed combinations on the distributor bar. The necessity thus arose, in the case of multiple magazine machines, provided with an ordinary set of matrices, for a QO-character font and another set for a '72 or even a 5l-character font, of interchanging the distributor bars or, in the case of machines having matricesof -respec-- tively different-kinds, of using'r espectivelydistinct distributor bars. This necessity is obviated by the present-invention, owing to the fact that the appropriate matrices are eachprovided with a toothed combination which corresponds with the magaz'inechannel, immediately preceding the magazine channelinto which that particular matrix is to be distributed. jnssuming, forex- 6o ample, that in "the standard 'maohines the-distributor .bar combinations; are each 6 millimeters long, according to' the invention the release of the matrices would be effected-about '6 millimeter-sin advance 'lOf the normalcombination for the re= spec'tive channel, so that the matrices would drop through the magazine entrance in the proper manner, and be guided correctly therefrom into their respective magazine channels.

The accompanying drawing, which is a fragmentary front elevationof the distributing mech anism, illustrates by way of example one constructional form of the invention.

In the drawing, a is a part of the distributor bar, as ordinarily constructed, with the lower part V-shaped and provided with distributing teeth. The matrices are caused to travel along the distributor bar in the direction of the ar row by means of distributor screws not represented in the drawing. The respective tooth combinations terminate in the planes of the vertical dotted lines b. The distance between these lines therefore corresponds to the length of the distributor bar combinations. Beneath the distributor bar are arranged the magazine entrances 0 adapted to guide the matrices into the magazine d. In the drawing only the bottom plate of the magazine is illustrated. The magazine channels e are adapted to guide the matrices by their ears in the manner heretofore proposed, and are flared at the top in order to receive the matrices as they drop and lead them into the proper channel. The guiding partitions of the magazine entrances c are likewise spaced apart in the usual manner to such an extent that wide matrices, of which one is shown in the drawing hanging from the distributor bar, are also afforded a free passage.

The matrix illustrated in the drawing belongs to'the magazine channel a. The distributing combination pertaining to this magazine channel would correspond with that section of the bar indicated by the arrow h, so that, as soon as the teeth of a matrix having a corresponding combination reach that section of the distribuzine entrance and therefore would not be conducted into its proper magazine channel.

According to the present inventiomthe matrix is provided with a distributing combination m (shown by the dotted lines in the drawing) which corresponds with the immediately preceding combination i of the distributor'bar and whichap' pertains actually to the immediately preceding magazine channel K, with the result that the matrix, at the juncture indicated in the draw-- ing, will be released from the distributor bar a and traverse the magazine entrance channel appropriate toythe magazine .channel 9 through which it ,will be conducted by; its earsn (shown by the dotted linesin the drawing)- in the ordinarymanner.

Having described my invention, I declare that what I claim anddesire to secure by LettersgPat+ entis:, 1 5 1 1. In a typographical composingand distributing-machine, equipped with a distributor bar having a succession of distributing teeth combinations, a I matrix with one toothed distributing combination located on thefollowingedge thereof during the distributing movement andcorresponding with a definite magazine channel, characterizedby the fact that for. jdisplay matrices' which. are wider than the length of an uting machine, the combination with a distributor bar having a succession of distributing teeth combinations and a magazine having channels each adapted to'receive a matrix released from one ofxsaidf distributing teeth combinations, of

.a matrix appropriate to a given magazine channel but of such width as to overlap the immed iat ely pre'ceding magazine channel and having a tooth combination corresponding with the distributor bar combination appropriate to the immediately preceding magazine channel.

3. In-,a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a distributor bar having a succession of distributing' teeth combinations, a magazine having ehannelseach adapted to receive a matrix released from one of said distributing teeth combinations, and, a

partitioned magazine entrance-intermediate the magazine and distributor bar having its partition in vertical planes parallel with those occupied by the magazine channels, of a matrixappropriate to a given magazine channel but, ofsuch width as to overlap the immediately preceding magazine channeland having a- -,tooth combina; tion corresponding with the distributor bar combination appropriate to the immediately preceding magazine channel.

, :YCHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS ALBRECHTQT 

